persuasion

             Love is a feeling we all hope to achieve in our life. The feeling of cuddling next to the one you love, the emotions that run though your body when you kiss that one special person. But, what if the government told you who you should and shouldn't get the opportunity to love. Homosexuals should have the right to get married.
             Marriage is an important personal choice and basic human right . The decision to get married should belong to the couple in love not the state. In 1967, the Surpreme Court ruled that state laws banning inter-racial marriages were unconstitutional. Advocates of gay rights today argue that the same principles apply to laws prohibiting gays to be married. In 1978, the United States Surpreme Court declared marriage to be " of fundamental importance to all individuals." The court described marriage as "one of the basic civil rights of man" and the " most important relation in life." The court also noted that "the right to marry is part of the fundamental right to privacy."
             How the next generation will be raised should be a main concern of the United States. But in the debates regarding recognition of same-sex couple marriage, the discussion about children's well-being does not focus on the right issues. Opponents of recognizing such marriages argue that it is better for children to be raised by two opposite-sex married parents, claiming that children need parents of both sexes as role models. The hundreds of thousands of children who are currently living with parents in a same-sex partnership, or who are living with a single gay mother or father who may later find a partner, will continue living with their parent(s) regardless of whether the state allows their parents to marry. Nobody is suggesting that they should be taken from their parent(s) and placed elsewhere; such a policy would not only be undesirable and contrary to existing law, it would be unconstitutional. These children clearly
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